Talk is cheap. They may say anything to buy time as they make deals between the EU, Canada, and Japan that exclude the US.

Functionally, it’s the default because links do open in it, but why isn’t it able to tell that it’s already set?

No, I wouldn’t. It’s how I can tell if the setting actually took!

Maybe you checked “stop asking”?

Well that’s frustrating. I may need to check that again.

They always seem to have some critical limitation. Handbrake is too slow via flatpak to work. Flatpak Zoom had no camera access. Flatpak-only Zen browser can’t use passkeys. Zen browser asks to be my default browser every time I open it, even though it is and I always say yes; is this a flatpak limitation? I don’t know, and I’d prefer not to have to figure it out just for some theoretical benefits and more overhead.